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And the Lord said to Moses , See I have made you a god to Pharaoh , and Aaron your brother will be your prophet .
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Say whatever I give you orders to Say : and Aaron your brother will give word to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land .
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And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt .
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But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt , and take my armies , my people, the children of Israel , out of Egypt , after great punishments.
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And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord , when my hand is stretched out over Egypt , and I take the children of Israel out from among them.
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And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders , so they did.
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And Moses was eighty years old , and Aaron eighty -three years old , when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh .
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron ,
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If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron , Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.
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Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said : and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants , and it became a snake.
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Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt , did the same with their secret arts.
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For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron 's rod made a meal of their rods .
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But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said .
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not let the people go .
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Go to Pharaoh in the morning ; when he goes out to the water , you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile , with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand ;
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And say to him, The Lord , the God of the Hebrews , has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words.
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So the Lord says , By this you may be certain that I am the Lord ; see , by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to blood ;
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And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell , and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking .
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And the Lord said , Say to Aaron , Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt , and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water , so that they may be turned to blood ; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt , in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone .
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And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said ; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants , all the water in the Nile was turned to blood ;
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And the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad smell went up from the river, and the Egyptians were not able to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking ; and there was blood through all the land of Egypt .
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And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said .
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Then Pharaoh went into his house , and did not take even this to heart .
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And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking -water , for they were not able to make use of the Nile water .
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And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile .